Character from A Practical Guide to Evil by ErraticErrata
The White Knight — a man who flips a coin to decide whether you live or die, connected to the Choir of Judgment, Catherine's rival and eventual counterpart in enforcing a peace neither of them would have imagined alone.
Hanno of Arwad was a scribe before he became the White Knight. He connected to the Choir of Judgment and received their coin: flip it, and Judgment decides mercy or execution. For years, he found this arrangement liberating — the hardest decisions weren't his anymore. The series challenges this. Catherine forces him to confront what it means to outsource morality to a choir. Their rivalry is ideological before it's martial: she believes Named should govern themselves through agreed-upon rules (the Accords), he believes in transcendent divine judgment. They're both wrong about some things and right about others. His later Aspects — Save (feels the balance of battle, saves those he chooses) and Undo (reverses an unjust death or calamity) — replace Judgment's coin with his own moral agency. Undo, combined with Catherine's Sentence, is what finally killed the Dead King. The Warden condemned; the White Knight undid the death that kept Neshamah alive. He becomes Catherine's counterpart: two Named enforcing the Liesse Accords from opposite sides of the Good/Evil line. It's the series' most hopeful relationship.
Ashuran man with dark skin and the composed bearing of someone who has surrendered personal judgment to a higher power — and found peace in the surrender. Carries a coin with crossed swords on one side and a laurel wreath on the other.
Also known as: Hanno, White Knight